Re: video game standard!?

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From: Kenneth Cameron
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:19

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When this thread started, someone mentioned that there were notes about
programming the Atari 2600 console on the net somewhere. I never saved
the post, but would now like to get hold of the stuff. Can someone tell
me where I can find it, I got nowhere with archie and wais. Thanks.

On the subject of the standard. Is n`t OS9 just a little bit over-kill, hmm ?
All that is really needed is a boot rom, which will start up the cartridge,
rom or otherwise. And has a large number of vectored (to allow code change)
subroutines for doing useful things like bitblit. Some decompress code might
also be useful to save rom space.

--
Kenneth@Edinburgh

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From: kc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Kenneth Cameron)
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Subject: Re: video game standard!?
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Date: 13 Sep 92 18:19:17 GMT
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